Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-26

Srnu Gunutg gegiste'
By ELI d. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Importsnt Events.
IT is intended to abolish fifteen or TWEEN
ty revenue collection districts in the Unit
ed States after July /.
EMIN BEY has again been heard from in
Africa. He reports the situation OF MS
expedition satisfactory.
PARNELL's malady is said to be Brighps
disease of the kidneys. His friends have
about abandoned hope OF his ultimate re-
covery.
HENRY GEORGE says he is opposed to
Blaine, and thinks it probable the Labor
party will have candidate for President
next year.
QUEEN KAPIoLAyI and suite, accompa
MED by the Board of Education, visited
some of the public schools of New York
City on the 10Th.
LORD HARRINGTON and his followers
have seeded from the Eighty Club be-
cause of the majority having voted il
favor of Gladstone's policy.
The Government has issued the one
hundred and forty-ninth call for bonds tc
be redeemed, being for three per cents
to the amount of SO, III, 500.
THE National Presbyterian Assembly al
Omaha adopted resolution which i'm
plies willingness for closer relations
with the Southern branch Of the church
MR.. EDGAR MORRIS, of Chicago. cables
from Paris that he has concluded a con.
tract for1 500, 600 kilos Of canned meat or
the French army, and 5000, 900 kilos for
the navy.
THE Pail Hall Gazette announces that
June 81 is to observed as holiday
throughout the United Kingdom. On that
day the Queen will have completed the
fiftieth year of her reign.
JOHN DAWES Sous, the famous iron
masters of Staffordshire and Yorkshire,
England, have failed. Their liabilities
are $500, 900 andsit is thought their assets
will realize very nearly that sum.
THE Dominion Government will make
allowance for iron importers who had en-,
tered into contract previous to the impo-
sition of the new duties, and will allow
consignments to enter under the Ole
tariffs.
The Queen of Denmark is visiting her
daughter, the Duchess of Cumberland
who is confined in a private insane asy
lum. Prince Luitpold, Regent of Bavaria
is the guest in Vienna of the Duchess o.
Modena-
DIRECTOR GRIsBEN, of Stetlin, who was
arrested in Chicago and extradited fol-
forging bills of exchange, committed
suicide by hanging on board the steamer
Allen before the arrival of the vessel al
Bremenhaven.
THE executive committee of the Nation
al Prison Association of the United State:
met at Toronto, Ont, on the 18th, to pre-
pare subjects for consideration and dis
.cussion at the congress to be held ther'
in September.
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AS THE result of an adverse vote in the
French Chamber of Deputies on the 18th
on the budget, Premier Goblet delivered
the designations of the ministers to Presi
dent Grevy, and they were accepted. The
matter causes uneasiness in Berlin.
SEVERAL indictments were returned OF
the Goth at Indianapolis, Ind, by tn
United States grand jury investigating
of 1oc tfars
Just who the indicted are will not b.
made public until the arrests are made.
MAJOR BEN. PERLEY PooRE, the veteran
newspaper correspondent, was stricken
down on the nth while at the Capitol IL
Washington, with an acute attack o
Brights disease. Late at night Maj Of
Poore was resting easily, but his condi
ton is the cause of uneasiness and alarm
among his friends.
THE Czarowitch of Russia was installed
with great ceremony at Novo Teherkasl
on the 18th as Hetman of the Cossacks
The decree of appointment was publicly
read to the Cossack soldiers. The CA
thanked the Cossacks for their faithful
services, and for the cordial reception
they had extended to him and his faml ly
CHARLES E. STUART died at Kalamazoo,
Mich, on the 10Th, aged seventy-seve
years. He served with distin ction tw'
terms in the National House of Represen
tatiyes and one as United States Senator
From 1S40 to 1850 he was one of the mos
brilliant leaders in the Democratic party
ranking next to Stephen A. Douglas as it
most trusted leader.
THE Michigan Senate, on the 18th, passed
the rom clad Oleomargarine bill, making
it a misdemeanor to manufacture the
commodity in Michigan. The bill pro
vides that grocers selling it, or hotel
keepers furnishing it to guests, must ex
hibit placard prominently stating thu
facts, or be liable to from six months t.
three years imprisonment, or slOO to SOU
fine.
Mr.. HYATT, the newly-appointed U nited
States Treasurer, visited the Treasury
Department on the 18th, and was pres
ented to all the officers of the treasurer
Office by Assistant Treasurer Whelpley
He says he will not take charge OF the
office before next week, as it will require
several days TO perfect his official bond
and to comply with certain other require
mentS.
IT is stated that the convention between
England and Turkey provides that thu
British will evacuate Egypt three years
hence. If, after that time, interna
troubles arise in Egypt, British and Turk
ish troops shall reoecppy the countr.
Jointly and separately as the two govern
mentS NAV agree Npon. No other powei